meadow

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A tract of grassland, either in its natural state or used as pasture or for growing hay.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A low, level tract of land under grass, and generally mown annually or oftener for hay; also, a piece of grass-land in general, whether used for the raising of hay or as pasture-land.
• noun A feeding-ground of fish, as cod.
• noun An icefield or floe on which seals herd.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
• noun Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea.
• adjective Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
• adjective (Bot.) Same as Deergrass.
• adjective (Bot.) a valuable pasture grass (Alopecurus pratensis) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.
• adjective [Local, U. S.] a coarse grass, or true sedge, growing in uncultivated swamp or river meadow; -- used as fodder or bedding for cattle, packing for ice, etc.
• adjective (Zoöl.) The clapper rail.
• adjective (Zoöl.) any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species Arvicola riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.
• adjective (Zoöl.) an American ribbed mussel (Modiola plicatula), very abundant in salt marshes.
• adjective (Min.) bog-iron ore , a kind of limonite.
• adjective (Bot.) See under Parsnip.
• adjective (Bot.) See under Pink.
• adjective (Zoöl.) a small singing bird of the genus Anthus, as Anthus pratensis, of Europe.
• adjective (Bot.) a delicate early plant, of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species.
• adjective (Bot.) See under Saffron.
• adjective (Bot.) See under Sage.
• adjective (Bot.) an umbelliferous plant of Europe (Silaus pratensis), somewhat resembling fennel.
• adjective (Zoöl.) the common or jack snipe.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low lying vegetation, especially near a river.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay